A week in security (December 10 – 16)

Last week on Labs, we took a look at some new Mac malware, a collection of various scraped data dumps, the protection of power grids, and how bad actors are using SMB vulnerabilities. Other cybersecurity news Millions affected by Facebook photo API bug: An issue granted third-party apps more acce...

Biometrics: Security Solution or Issue?

NYC – With more transactions occurring online – and subsequently, the number of data breaches increasing – biometrics are moving to the forefront in discussions as a top way to authenticate data securely. However, challenges remain. The method is not yet being widely utilized by consumers or...

Microsoft Calls For Facial Recognition Tech Regulation

As facial recognition continues to gain traction in public use cases, Microsoft on Thursday called for regulation of the technology, citing heightened concerns around privacy and consent. Over the past year, facial recognition technology has started to pop up in various government-related...

White House Facial Recognition Pilot Raises Privacy Alarms

Privacy advocates are up in arms after the Department of Homeland Security unveiled a facial recognition pilot program for surveilling public areas surrounding the White House. The program, outlined last week, will use biometrics to confirm the identity of various U.S. Secret Service USSS...

Tools for capturing and analyzing keyboard input paired with microphone capture

The main goal is to exploit the sound produced by pressing keyboard keys as a side channel in order to guess the content of the text being typed. To achieve this, the algorithm takes as input a training set, consisting of an audio recording, together with the corresponding keys being typed during...

sos-collector security update

1.5-3.0.1 - To recognize OL systemOraBug 28807430 - import os module to detect /etc/redhat-release OraBug 28740046 1.5-3 - Resolve race condition in cluster profile loading - Quote all options globally - RHBZ1633515 - RHBZ1647955 1.5-2 - Fix cluster option reporting 1.5-1 - Update to version 1.5 ...

Track People on the Internet: trape

Trape is a OSINT analysis and research tool, which allows people to track and execute intelligent social engineering attacks in real time. It was created with the aim of teaching the world how large Internet companies could obtain confidential information such as the status of sessions of their...

New Boom in Facial Recognition Tech Prompts Privacy Alarms

Somewhat quietly over the past couple of years there has been a flurry of breakthroughs in biometric technology, led by some leapfrog advances in facial recognition systems. Now facial recognition appears to be on the verge of blossoming commercially, with security use-cases paving the way. Last...

Spring Security and Spring Framework may not recognize certain paths that should be protected

Both Spring Security 3.2.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.0 and the Spring Framework 3.2.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x, 4.2.x as well as other unsupported versions rely on URL pattern mappings for authorization and for mapping requests to controllers respectively. Differences in the strictness of the pattern matching mechanisms,...

Microsoft Windows Defender AV: Turn on protocol recognition

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winavprotocolrecognition.nasl 11495 2018-09-20 10:06:25Z emoss $ Check value for Turn on protocol recognition Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is...

Facial Recognition, a British Airways Hack, and More Security News This Week

A British Airways breach, a fake Army site, and more of the week's top security news...

Social Media Enumeration & Correlation Tool: Social Mapper

Social Mapper is a Open Source Intelligence Tool that uses facial recognition to correlate social media profiles across different sites on a large scale. It takes an automated approach to searching popular social media sites for targets names and pictures to accurately detect and group a person’s...

Announcing the Fifth Annual Flare-On Challenge

The FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE team’s annual reverse engineering challenge will start at 8:00 p.m. ET on Aug. 24, 2018. This is a CTF-style challenge for all active and aspiring reverse engineers, malware analysts, and security professionals. So dust off your disassembler, pu...

Social Mapper - A Social Media Enumeration & Correlation Tool

A Social Media Mapping Tool that correlates profiles via facial recognition by Jacob WilkinGreenwolf Social Mapper is a Open Source Intelligence Tool that uses facial recognition to correlate social media profiles across different sites on a large scale. It takes an automated approach to searchin...

This Week in Security News: Hijacks and Healthcare

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, Singapore looks into the effectiveness of virtual browsers in an attempt to reduce cyberattacks on healthcare systems. Also, cybercriminals...

Researchers Developed Artificial Intelligence-Powered Stealthy Malware

Artificial Intelligence AI has been seen as a potential solution for automatically detecting and combating malware, and stop cyber attacks before they affect any organization. However, the same technology can also be weaponized by threat actors to power a new generation of malware that can evade...

Researchers Developed Artificial Intelligence-Powered Stealthy Malware

Artificial Intelligence AI has been seen as a potential solution for automatically detecting and combating malware, and stop cyber attacks before they affect any organization. However, the same technology can also be weaponized by threat actors to power a new generation of malware that can evade...

Free Facial Recognition Tool Can Track People Across Social Media Sites

Security researchers at Trustwave have released a new open-source tool that uses facial recognition technology to locate targets across numerous social media networks on a large scale. Dubbed Social Mapper, the facial recognition tool automatically searches for targets across eight social media...

Free Facial Recognition Tool Can Track People Across Social Media Sites

Security researchers at Trustwave have released a new open-source tool that uses facial recognition technology to locate targets across numerous social media networks on a large scale. Dubbed Social Mapper, the facial recognition tool automatically searches for targets across eight social media...

Windows Speech Recognition - Buffer Overflow Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category dos / poc Title: Windows Speech Recognition- Buffer Overflow Author: Nassim Asrir Contact: email protected | https://www.linkedin.com/in/nassim-asrir-b73a57122/ Vendor: https://www.microsoft.com/ About Windows Speech Recognition:...